IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Society of Friends
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: SOCIETY OF FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE
Date(s): [1914-1919]
Level of description: Collection (Fonds)
Extent: 2 files, 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Society of Friends
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Appointed at Society of Friends yearly meeting, 1915, to help and advise members who wished to take up special work during war-time; became responsible for organising the Society's resistance against the introduction of conscription, 1916, and for campaigning on behalf of conscientious objectors.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Pacifist publications and publications relating to conscription, [1914-1919], principally comprising leaflets issued by the Society of Friends Service Committee and the Joint Advisory Council of the Society of Friends Service Committee, the No-Conscription Fellowship and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, [1916]-1917, 1919; supplement to No-Conscription Fellowship newspaper The Tribunal, Jul 19 1917; 'Military Service Act, 1916 (Session 2)', printed by HMSO, 1916; 'One-man businesses: cases of hardship: co-operation', Local Government Board circular to Military Service Acttribunals, printed by HMSO, 1917. Catalogue of The Garland library of war and peace series, published by Garland Publishing Inc, 1971. Some'frightful' war pictures by William Heath Robinson (Duckworth and Co, London, 1915). 'The Bystander's' fragments from France by Capt BruceBairnsfather, published by The Bystander, [1915-1916].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
2 files, 1 volume
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by Professor Wolf Mendl, Department of War Studies, King's College London, in 1981.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
The Society of Friends retains its own archives
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 1997